Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-06-24
Deaths.

John II. Slower, County OuiV0Joi Vi
Augusta, and one of its Oldest and pest
citizens, died at his residence In this Guy
last Friday morning at 5 O'Clock, OF aneur,
ism of the heart. He had been IN fall-
ing health for some time, but his death
was unexpected when it came. But a
few minutes before it. he lad been Sitting
up and told those In the room that he had
spent an excellent night. Upon lying down
it was seen that he was in pain and as his
children raised him up in their arms he
expired.
Mr.. Slower was born near Churchvllle
in this county April %, 1917. He was a
famous teacher of his day, and afterwards
taught it himself In the voca5ion OF
teaching, Mr.. Slower spent twenty-ssven
years Of his life, until about twelve years
ago he was made county surveyor to sue
coed the late Col. Jas. Lilley. In that tins
he had taught over fifteen hundred pupils
as shown by roll that he kept, and among
them were more than fifty boys who
afterwards became ministers of the
gospel. Rev. D. L. Wilson of Pulaski,
Rev. Geo. L. Cooke of North Carolina
Rev. Simpson Hildebrand of Highland,
Rev. DIR. Geo. White of Moorefeld. w
Va, and scores of other ministers were
his pupils. Prof. VIM. White of Wash
ington g. Lee University, Geo. M. Coch-
ran, Jr.. H. B. Niche, DR.. j. R. Stout
of Staunton, Col. James l.. Cochran, DR.
R. S. Hamilton of Augusta, Judge Seig
of Highland, and many other well
known men of this day were among his
boys, During the twenty seven years OF
teaching he also served twentyseve q
years as one OF the two Commissioners of
the Revenue of Augusta county. The
other was Thomas Donahoe. 1t is said
that the Presbyterian vote of the county
was as solid for Mr.. Slower as if lis cleo
ton was a matter of church discipline,
and he always received the largest vote
cast at any election in which he was a
candidate. He joined the Presbyterian
church at the age Of seventeen years and
during his life was Ruling Elder in three
congregations. Union, Loeb Willow and
Thinking Spring. He was often chosen as
lay representative to the Synod of Virgin.
ia from Lexington Presbytery.
A widow and seven children survive
him. His Oldest daughter, Mrs. DR.. Will
son, having died recently in Texas, the
surviving children are-Dr. John Ell.
Slower of Broadway. Rockingham; Deputy
Sheriff S. Baxter Slower; E. H. and W.
Writ Slower; Mrs. M. E. Calhoun of AL
bemarle, and Misses Ida A. and Katie E
Slower. All, except DR.. Slower who was
unavoidably absent, were present with
him in his last hours. His remains were
inferred, Saturday, in the family lot in
Thinking Spring cemetery, and in that
church the funeral services were conduct
ed by Rev. John A. Preston; assisted by
Rev. DR.. D. K. Mcfarland of the First
Presbyterian church of Staunton. The
pallbearers were W. A. Burnett, County
Clerk; J. N. Mcfarland, County Treas
urer; Jos. A. Waddell and VIM. J. Nelson,
Ruling Elders of the First Presbyterian
church of Stanton, and Henry II. Hamil-
ton and W. Brown Patterson, Ruling Ell
ders of Thinking Spring church.
Mr.. Slower was a man of consistent
Christian character and showed in his life
a rigid following of the lessons he had
learned from the Master, and that he
taught to others.
DR.. T. Hunter Fauver died at Bridge
water, Rockingham, on the 9Th inst, of
congestion of the lungs, at the early age
of thlrty-two years. He graduated at the
College Of Physicians and Surgeons in
Baltimore, in 1881, and began the practice
of medicine at Parnassus, in Augusta
county. The next year he located at
Bridgewater, where be has since been a
successful practitioner. His funeral, which
was one of the largest ever known IN that
town, was attended by the Odd Fellows
Lodge of which he was member. Six
physicians made up the pall-bearers-Drs.
Minor, Brown, Warren. Ralston, Coyner,
and Early.
The Winchester papers announce the
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of the heart, of Miss Helen Holiday, a
sister of Messrs. McHenry and Robert
Holiday of Stanton. She was taken sick
Thursday evening on returning from a
ride. She was noted for her good works
and the ''Times' speaking of her, says:
Her whole life had been spent in good
deeds-jn ministering to the wants of the
sick and afflicted and in solacing the
broken-hearted. Her kindly face beaming
with Christian feryor was the light OF
many household in this city whose little
ones, together with the heads of the fam
family, were accustomed to wait for the
well known step and listen for the cheer.
tuI voice of their now departed friend and
comforter.
Mr.. Thomas J. Gilbert, the venerable
postmaster at Annex, in this county, died
on the 18th inst, in his seventy-second
year.